Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 95
And while I gazed she took out of her bosom an ivory box, and held it up to me.
Who acts: I, fairy · What happens: gaze, take out, hold up, bosom · To what, where: bosom, box, me
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 gazed | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazed | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 12 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 box | compound |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bosom | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 held | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 held | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take out | past | fairy | fairy's bosom a ivory box | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bosom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold up | past | box | me | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bosom | fairy | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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